So we all know now that Homecoming was cancelled – and some football players tested positive for Covid. Misti posted an extremely condescending and arrogant order to everyone not to speculate or pontificate about any of this. Just shut your mouth and obey. Right? We’re too ignorant to make informed and educated assessments.
Talbert sets new record for condescending twaddle on Facebook
Nah. I think I’ll swing my big, fat hairy opinion all over the place, thanks very much.
Of course, Misti and others in charge over the last handful of years have PROVED over and over that THEY are actually the ones incapable of making informed assessments on TONS of issues (*cough*Azbell* cough**cough*elevator ripoff*cough*). I’ve chronicled their stupidity, hypocrisy and dishonesty here on at least 8 issues over the last 24 months.
So there’s that.
But she IS right about us not having any information. The Powers That Be certainly see to THAT, don’t they? I’d agree with her that it’s nobody’s business if a couple kids get sick except for the fact that these morons have been forcing every kid in school to wear a dirty face diaper 40 hours a week – so it kinda IS everybody’s business now, isn’t it?
Actually, this whole thing should be a giant non-event. Some healthy young kids have Covid. So what? Better get used to it. As I have said REPEATEDLY – this virus will be with us forever. Like the flu. So you better come to terms with it. It is less of a danger than flu for those under 50. For high school kids, they’re more likely to be killed by a dog, for Christ’s sake:
I’m going to go out on another limb and predict all these kids will be fine. After all, Misti and her daughter were fine and these football boys are in FAR better shape as athletes.
What do you want to bet at least some of these kids didn’t even know they were “sick” until a test told them they were? I’m guessing they are forced to take Covid tests weekly in order to “obey” the “mandates” handed down by morons from up on high. Of course, we’ll never know if that’s the case because we aren’t privy to that data like the Very Important Talbert is. Maybe these poor kids were tested by one of those overly sensitive tests that picks up viral fragments from 12 weeks ago – meaning they are perfectly safe to play. Who knows? We certainly never will!
Oh goodness. There I go again “speculating” and “theorizing” about some hypothesis! Right after Very Important Talbert told me not to!
The key feature of 2020 has been a complete and utter loss of perspective.
People who have lived near wolves for a century are suddenly cowering in the house because there’s chihuahua puppy in the yard.
Covid never posed any meaningful threat to students or colleges.
US college campus deaths related to alcohol: 1,800 annually
US college student deaths from COVID-19: Less than 10 (zero in the 2020/2021 school year)
The fact is, there are over 3 million alcohol related deaths globally every year. Many of these occur in the young and healthy, tragically.
Most still acknowledge alcohol prohibition to be a bad idea.
Yet closing schools, colleges, restaurants and businesses for COVID-19 with FAR FEWER deaths is a good idea?
Cancer, heart disease, road collisions, alcohol, drugs, flu, pneumonia. The list is longer than your arm, yet no ‘shelter in place’ for any of that. You couldn’t make this mask shit up if you tried.
Hopefully the LISD and the county “health authority” understand the downsides to masks for kids who are far more likely to die in a car accident than they are of Wuhan Flu:
These same morons will wonder why we have an explosion in respiratory problems in young adults in a few years and say “well, we couldn’t have seen THIS coming!”
Think for yourselves. The “experts” don’t know jack.
…like “Doctor” Chane Rascoe, Dr Hay (Health Authority), all the snitches and mask lunatics, Bruce Haywood, Melissa ‘Dum Dum’ Johnson, etc. From a friend of a friend:
“I was trained as a chemist. A large part of my professional career was working in various parts of the filtration industry. I developed a line of mixed esters of cellulose membrane filters. Millipore type filters, that were used to sterilize flu vaccines for Merck Sharp and Dohme as well as other medical products companies. I developed respiratory protection products for Wilson Safety Products used in the mining industry. I worked for Baxter developing medical / IV filters. I have patents on three IV filters I invented. Baxter sold more than 5 million of one of those every year for most of a decade. I know a little bit about filters.
Surgical masks were not designed as filters and were not intended to be used as filters. Surgical masks were designed to be used by surgeons standing face down over an operating table holding a patient with an open wound. The surgeon wearing the mask would be able to talk to others in the room without discharging spittle droplets into the patient’s open wound. Spittle droplets are large and can cause infection.
I witnessed a test of surgical masks. Small plaster particles were generated in a room. They were visible as a white dust in the air. A man was properly fitted with a surgical mask and spent a short time in the room. When he came out the mask was removed. A camera was focused on the man’s face. The entire area that had been covered by the mask was coated by the white dust. The camera showed that his nostrils and his mouth had been penetrated by the white dust. The dust particles were measured and found to be around 40 micrometers in diameter. The particles that penetrated the mask were the same diameter.
Covid-19 virus molecules are about 0.1 micrometers in diameter. That is 400 times smaller than the plaster particles that penetrated the mask.
[Please take note, Dr “I love bandanas” Hay]
Surgical masks will not prevent the wearer from inhaling or exhaling viruses or bacteria. They provide absolutely no protection for either the wearer or anyone nearby. They create a very dangerous false sense of security for everyone. They also force the wearer to rebreath carbon dioxide. Which will over time reduce the wearers blood oxygen level. That can become very dangerous especially for older people.
This farce is being promoted by sleazy politicians who believe that if they can convince people that they are protecting them or creating a safe environment for them by pushing this mask farce those people will re-elect them.“
The WHO admitted to the BBC that its June 2020 mask policy update was due not to new evidence but “political lobbying”: “We had been told by various sources WHO committee reviewing the evidence had not backed masks but they recommended them due to political lobbying. This point was put to WHO who did not deny.” (D. Cohen, BBC Medical Correspondent)
Japan, despite its widespread use of face masks, experienced its most recent influenza epidemic with more than 5 million people falling ill just one year ago, in January and February 2019. However, unlike SARS-2, the influenza virus is transmitted by children, too.
Many states that introduced mandatory face masks on public transport and in shops in spring, such as Hawaii, California, Argentina, Spain, France, Japan and Israel, saw a strong increase in infections from July onwards, indicating a low effectiveness of mask policies.
Austrian scientists found that the introduction, retraction and re-introduction of mandatory face masks in Austria had no influence at all on the infection rate.
In the US state of Kansas, the 90 counties without mask mandates had lower coronavirus infection rates than the 15 counties with mask mandates. To hide this fact, the Kansas health department tried to manipulate the official statistics and data presentation.
In children, the risk of Covid-19 disease and transmission is very low – much lower than for influenza – and face masks for children are therefore, in general, not indicated.
During the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic, the use of cloth face masks among the general population was widespread and in some places mandatory, but they made no difference.
Great decision guys. But there is just one thing that worries me: that little word “DELAY“. Makes me think you tipped your hand and you are planning on doing this anyways at the smallest excuse, but not right now because parents are so enraged at you.
Some other observations:
“After carefully reviewing case counts in our schools and Lampasas County…”
Huh? What is there to ‘review’? According to our esteemed County Health Authority, there are a whopping 14 cases in our county of 22,000 people (99.94% of us are NOT active).
I have to think if any kid tested positive for Covid, you would all go into a ridiculous panic and overreact greatly. So I have to guess that hasn’t happened yet. So why all the “careful reviewing” nonsense?
What I DO know is that she is a big fan of masks, according to her statements in the July 3rd Radiogram.
Ah yes…remember the “hospitals are being overwhelmed” line of crap?
She “feels” they will prevent “at least some” cases? That doesn’t inspire much confidence. Hard evidence trumps feelings in my book, and there is nothing worse than the Haywoodian logic that “well, masks can’t hurt”. Masks most certainly CAN hurt and have many downsides. See a list of them HERE.
I have alarming news for you – billions of people have been “making someone sick” since human history started. It’s why we have immune systems.
Furthermore, if Dr Hay is SO sure that cloth masks are a panacea and will prevent deadly viruses from being brought home to grandma, then why has she been silent the last 13 years of her medical career while the influenza virus ran rampant? Why didn’t she shout out on the radio and newspapers last November/December demanding masks in schools when the “flu” was running rampant in our schools? A “flu” that I think was VERY LIKELY ACTUALLY COVID-19 hitting the kids already!
P.S. – are any of these ‘experts’ maybe noticing a massive increase of strep throat this season? Can’t wait to see the Mayor and Dr Hay report “Strep throat active and recovered” cases….seeing as how thousands of kids are now breathing through a warm, damp bacteria breeding ground all day long. Disgusting.
Looks like they aren’t even trying now. The reporting was dog shit before but now it seems they are just throwing up whatever they want. And why not? It’s not like we can check it for accuracy, anyways. They can safely ignore you and do whatever they want with zero repercussions.
Ah yes. That pesky “timeline”. So he could have died three months ago in another county, right? Why would we expect Dr Hay to know what’s going on in her own county as “County Health Authority”? Only the STATE knows what’s going on here in our county, I guess.
Active cases are WAY down under the “magic 20” number yet again. Good thing the LISD is “considering” making little kids wear a damp, bacteria-filled diaper over their breathing holes all day long. Makes TOTAL sense, right??
“You know who you are”? Who? The CDC? The Texas Department of Health? The coronavirus worldometer web page?
My goodness. It’s ‘nosy’, sweetheart. I sure hope all our City correspondence gets spell checked before it’s sent out into the real world!
Anyway, I hate to break this to you, but all these Wuhan flu stats are reported all over the place – including to the CDC and the state health department. Being ‘nosey’ [sic] has nothing to do with it. No wonder it’s always so hard for me to get information from the City about your expensive no-bid contracts: you probably think I’M being ‘nosey’ trying to find out about all the tax dollars wasted. Gives us a glimpse of your world-view, I suppose.
I would look at the above and state it quite differently:
“Look at our great news: 98.76% of our county has NOT contracted Covid! Also, 99.91% of our county is NOT currently an “active” case! This is despite a huge majority of people ignoring our stupid mask mandates in real life (as they should!). But that won’t stop me from letting people call the cops on you and try to fine you money! It won’t stop us from making your child strap a diaper on their face every day at school and breathe their own CO2 and warm, damp bacteria cultures! You know why it won’t stop us? Because we are HUGE on virtue signaling and doing things that make us FEEL good even though they have ZERO basis in fact! We LOVE making our kids miserable for no good reason! Oh, and we’ll be shutting down half the football stadium for the same nonsense reasons! Yay for us!”
SO – go ahead and take that mask off if you want. If a worker says anything, just tell them “I have a condition!”. If they ask what my condition is (which is illegal under the Disabilities Act) I just tell them “my condition is my IQ is over 75” and just keep walking.
Eventually, perhaps life will return to normal and the lunatics will no longer be in charge of the asylum.
More ‘proof’ for the Branch Covidian mask cult that you are wasting your time with your mask nonsense. Somebody forward this to “Doctor” Chane Rascoe, our $158,000 superintendent.
In today’s “masks don’t work” segment…LA, Orange & San Diego Counties all had different mask timing.
Orange county even tried to follow science & rescinded the mandate briefly…and yet, the curve was the same.
Also: the 7-day average peaked on almost the exact same day!!
How can that be?! Gee…it’s almost as if masks don’t work at all!
I’m sure we’re all used to seeing these ‘updates’ from the Mayor every couple of days:
Sorry to disappoint, but I’m going to sling my big, fat, meaty opinion around like a weapon here and say that Lampasas Covid reporting SUCKS!
That’s right…..SUCKS!
Oh, I know Misti: you’re “just passing this all along from Dr Hay”. Yes, I know. You can take credit for the ‘leadership’ of ‘keeping us informed’ but also deflect blame for the poor quality of reporting and mountains of details left out.
In the early days, we at least got a LITTLE BIT of detail.
Yes – it took over SEVEN MONTHS for our county of 22,000 people to log our first fatality. A man roughly 14 years past the average male life expectancy and already infirm. A deadly plague indeed!
We got a rough age, gender and ‘nursing home’ indication. Not a bad start!
Naturally, I kept a record of all this. Here is what we gleaned about fatalities – the absolute MOST important data point when it comes to weighing the cost/benefit of destroying the economy to fight this ‘deadly plague’:
Male in 90s – nursing home (7/21/20)
Female in 70s (7/28/20)
Male in 80s (7/30/20)
Female in 80s (8/3/20)
Fatality #5 – no age/gender reported. No way to know since the actual report by Mist was “we lost another precious soul over the weekend” – (8/10/20) – and that was it.
In the August 17 report, the “active cases” cratered from 30 down to 17….which is UNDER the magic number of “20” needed to treat us all like prisoners.
Then….WEEKS passed with our “fatality count” stuck at 5 and our “active cases” stuck at 17. We can’t have that! It’s doesn’t reinforce the “deadly plague” narrative that keeps Bruce Haywood huddled under his bed and poor little 10-year-old kids breathing their own CO2 and bacteria in a mask. SO, on August 24th, we got TWO random fatalities added:
Somebody was in another county when they got sick and died there? Seems to me that should count in the other county, but such is the bizarre and crappy system we have. Mind you, that ‘out-of-county’ death is 12.5% of our total fatality count now. ZERO information on age – which is AGAIN very shoddy, in my opinion.
Fatality #8 – no age or gender given (8/26/20). Misti THEN reported that “5 of the 8 fatalities were residents of our nursing homes” – which could not possibly have been deduced from the previous public ‘updates’ so who knows how SHE found out but WE didn’t. More evidence of shoddy and incomplete reporting.
Bottom line, 62% of the fatalities are nursing home patients. Nursing home patients who VERY LIKELY had several other significant issues going on (comorbidities). At LEAST 3 of the fatalities were people OVER 80 years of age. Due to Lampasas County crappy reporting procedures and lack of information on fatalities #5,6,7 and 8, I guess we’ll never know more than that.
In a nutshell: attention to detail in reporting went straight into the toilet after fatality #4.
We remained stuck comfortably under the “magic” number of 20 active cases for a while again. Once again, we can’t have that! Suddenly, EVERYONE was advertising FREE testing of the easy oral type (not the deep, painful nasal penetration type).
So what now? What kind of Covid reporting SHOULD we expect – nay, demand?
We have Governors acting like kings making decrees and weak local government going along without question. We have libtard morons snitching on any businesses not bowing down and following the idiotic mask “mandates”. We have little kids (who are more likely to get hit by lightning than die of Wuhan Flu) wearing unhealthy, bacteria-laden masks…or WORSE – not going to school at all and instead “remote” learning!
When we have allowed ALL those terrible losses of freedom due to irrational fear, that tells me The Powers That Be have done a very SHITTY job of convincing the citizens with FACTS and STATISTICS that this is an issue ONLY for the very elderly and infirm at best – and NOT a reason for the draconian ‘mandates’ we currently suffer under.
Reporting the REAL numbers and facts tells us that at MOST we maybe have had ONE death in our county of TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND that could truly be considered “out of the blue” and happened to someone tragically too young (if you consider 60 years old young) The others were so elderly and/or infirm that SOMETHING was going to cause their death soon anyways. I don’t mean to sound callous or flippant, but those are the FACTS.
Part II coming soon – where you can see what EXCELLENT Covid reporting looks like from right next door: Burnet County.
